If you clean your sliding door tracks and rollers regularly choose a petroleum based lubricant.
Oil to use for a sliding glass door.
However they can easily get dirty damaged or broken and cause your door to malfunction.
Move the door back and forth like you did in step 1 to help the door glide over the oiled areas.
One spraying later and i have been buying 3m ever since.
A silicone based lubricant will be adequate and won t attract dirt.
One of my friends recommended that i try the 3m silicone spray on one of my sliding windows.
To quickly clean and lubricate a sliding glass door start by vacuuming 1 side of track while the door is still closed.
Another popular method of lubricating and smoothing out a sliding door track is to simply spray a light mineral oil directly on the track and slide it back and forth until the lubricant has been fully distributed along the track.
Sliding glass doors use rollers to move along the track.
If you don t clean the sliding.
This will actually help to move around the lubricant into the harder to reach middle area where the door is constantly sliding and experiencing the friction that makes it stick.
This teflon white lithium grease is manufactured by dupont and it is designed to be used both indoors and outdoors which means it may work suitably for your sliding glass door.
It might sound strange to use a car spray lubricant for a sliding door or window but i actually took the risk.
If the rollers are dirty you can try removing the door from the tracks cleaning the rollers and spraying them with a lubricant.
It is designed to have little to no odor which means that you can use it on the side of the house on your door without being overtaken by the smell.